Daily Motivator - January

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January 9

Slowly wade in

If you can’t bring yourself to make the full effort, perhaps you can make a half effort, or a quarter. What if you simply start going through the motions?

At least that’s something. At least it puts your focus in a productive place.

Maybe once you’re sufficiently focused on the effort, you can begin to actually get good work done. It can’t hurt to move in that direction.

As you spend more time going through the motions, you will develop some momentum. Eventually that momentum can transform the superficial motions into meaningful progress.

It’s possible that just going through the motions will end up being a useless exercise. Perhaps, but the alternative, which is doing nothing, is guaranteed to be useless.

The water is too cold to jump right in. Yet there’s a good chance you can slowly wade in, and soon you’ll be swimming along nicely.

— Ralph Marston